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Basil Masri Zada will present on “The Absence of the Syrian Artists” on Thursday, Feb. 7, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Kennedy Museum. Zada will will give a general overview of international political attitudes toward displaced Syrian artists. He examines the the effects of the crisis in Syria […]

Glidden Visiting Professor David Crane and Michael Scharf will speak about their new co-edited book, The Founders: Four Pioneering Individuals Who Launched the First Modern-Era International Criminal Tribunals, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, from 4:30-5:45 p.m in Bentley 124. Scharf is Co-Dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Director […]

Dr. Özgür Özdamar will lecture on “Foreign Policy Change in the Middle East: Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey” on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 6 p.m. in Porter 104. Özdamar is Associate Professor of Political Science at Bilkent University and currently a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on foreign […]

The 2019 Lazaroff Lecture features Dr. Alexandra Guerson and Dr. Dana Wessell Lightfoot discussing “When Astruga Became Blanca: Understanding Jewish Women, Conversion, and Apostasy in Late Medieval Spain” on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Baker Center Ballroom A. A reception follows the lecture, which is free and open to […]

The Contemporary History Institute welcomes Dr. Felix Boecking to Ohio University to kick off CHI’s spring 2019 lecture series on Feb. 28 at 4:30 in Baker Center 242. Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese Economic and Political History at the University of Edinburgh, Boecking will present “No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and […]

  The audio-visual exhibition Sounds of War is showing Jan. 22 through Feb. 2 at the Trisolini Gallery. The exhibit highlights the sounds of daily life in Syria, including those of battles and explosions that Syrians have become accustomed to. These sound recordings and their accompanying photographs were captured in Damascus, Syria between […]

The History Graduate Student Association at Ohio University invites graduate students to submit research and paper proposals for the 14th Annual Ohio University History Graduate Conference to take place on March 22-23, 2019. Eligibility of Paper Topics (Non-Historians Welcome) Students working on the contemporary period in any geographical region are […]